INSTITUTIONAL CONTENT OF ENSURING STATE SECURITY AND LAW ORDER IN THE CONDITIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION REFORM

The article is devoted to the analysis of modern problems of the functioning of the Ukrainian state in conditions of external aggression. The peculiarities of the institutional content of ensuring state security and law and order in the conditions of the decentralization reform are analyzed. The modern methodology of the study of the institutional content of the modern reform of law enforcement agencies, the peculiarities of the legal regime of martial law, the strengthening of the influence of law enforcement agencies on the implementation of tasks of state functions under the conditions of the decentralization reform is justified. It is emphasized that the problem of ensuring state security and law and order is actualized in the conditions of the decentralization reform, significant changes due to the constitutional reform of the justice system. The institutional reform of the law enforcement system is also indicated. In the national security system of Ukraine, an important task of public authorities is defined as the organizational reform of the functions, structure and powers of management entities in order to ensure the protection of the state, society and citizens from external and internal threats. It is proved that in the modern conditions of the decentralization reform, the theoretical and methodological foundations of state administration in the sphere of state security and protection of public order as a purposeful influence of the state on the protection of state sovereignty, constitutional order, territorial integrity, economic, scientific, technical and defense potential, legal interests of the state and the rights of citizens. A theoretical model of the legal state is proposed, which requires a clear definition of the institution of state security and law and order as an object of state administration by scientifically establishing the structure, form, methods and principles. For this purpose, the article reveals the essence of the formation of the concept of territorial management by law enforcement agencies based on the principle of responsiveness.